19th-Century British Folk Art, Harness Racing

19th-Century British Folk Art, Harness RacingThis late 19th century naive British oil painting depicts a scene from a harness race. Its signed E T Noll. Sitting somewhat precariously atop a high wheeled sulky, a rider, wearing a light blue jersey, grapples with the reins of a trotting horse. Beyond him, a large oval track is peppered with onlookers. Harness Racing has been a popular sport in the United Kingdom for over 100 years. Its origins are unknown but date back many centuries with the

Minor paint loss in the bottom left

He’d spent decades perfecting the art of photography

This early 19th-century Dutch school oil painting depicts a family travelling along a country track in a wooded area

Jakob Hansen

The miniature is held within an attractive brass frame with stand

33½” x 27” / 85cm x 69cm

And note how the tallest tree guides our view diagonally downwards towards the figure

This architectural plan from 1965 depicts a lively street scene amid a modernist town centre

Sandy pits dent the landscape

Her eyes are cast downwards

Dow trained in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts and later at the ateliers of Rudolphe Julien and Carolus Duran

which illuminates the splendid Roman countryside